Luoyang, Dongxi Garden.

Zhu Ming took members of the royal family to the royal garden to escape the summer heat, and also brought a radio station and a transmitter.

It is said to be a summer vacation, but in fact, you also need to work.

Li Hanzhang came to Dongxi Garden to meet him according to the order. He sat in the pavilion in the middle of the lake and waited. The green lotus swayed in the wind and the buds that had just revealed their sharp horns.

He already knew about the things in his hometown, but he didn't know the details.

Since he asked his brother to go back to separate and moved his household registration, Li Hanzhang has no contact with his family.

Many Chinese vocabulary have their origins and are used to it because they have been used for a long time.

Just like Zhu Ming's first year name "Revival of China", people at this time did not feel vulgar, and it was omitted as "Revival", and "Xinghua" has other meanings.

The same is true for "sun". People hundreds of years later must think it is an ordinary title.

Then why is the spoken language of the moon not "Taiyin"?

And it became more and more popular. It was called "Moonlight" in the Ming Dynasty, but it was called "Moonlight" in the Qing Dynasty.

The evolution of nouns from the bright moon to the moon is the normal trend of popularization and colloquialization.

The sun's oral title has evolved from popular to elegant, which is contrary to the laws of language development.

Because the three characters "Sun, "Zhi Niang" and "Zhi Niang" can be replaced by the vulgar words "Sun" and "Zhi Niang" directly.

Even when cursing, it is simplified to one word: Day!

Therefore, the oral "Sun" and "Sun" in the Song and Yuan dynasties were gradually replaced by more elegant "Sun" in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

If you point to the sky and say the sun in the Song Dynasty, it is no different from pointing to the night sky and shouting the moon. It is an elegant and unearthy behavior. Because everyone usually calls the sun, and even the sun is often used in poetry.

We are used to "dividing up family", but this word also has its origin.

When the emperor establishes a country and the princes establish their families, they become a country together.

"Jia" specifically refers to the fiefdom of a scholar and official, and can also be called a fief.

The descendants of the princes had too many descendants, and the fiefdoms in the past were difficult to support, so they had to separate their families and find another way out.

Those who stayed there were called Zongzi, and those who split up were called Zhizi.

According to the Zhou Li, "Zhizi does not sacrifice", that is, the branch of the family has no power to sacrifice to ancestors.

After the rituals collapsed and the music broke out, some branches began to rob the main people.

Later, the ancestral son was able to worship his ancestors, but they usually adhered to the Zhou rituals: separate families and one church, and the one who opened the church was the ancestor of the branch, and the descendants would no longer worship the ancestors of the main clan.

Li Hanzhang's "family separation" behavior belongs to the real "family separation", rather than simply changing a household registration book - the "family separation" in the commonly verb, should be called "family separation households", and the sacrifice remains unchanged.

Generally speaking, I will not separate my family directly when I move, because this is a "unfilial" behavior of forgetting my ancestors. Usually, it is not until three or four generations of migration that I will officially separate my family and pay homage to the ancestors.

The Jiangxi tribe who was forcibly moved to Hunan by Wei Liangchen, currently has no one separated. They are all normal households and have the power to worship their ancestors from afar.

Li Hanzhang was more ruthless and cut it directly because he expected something to happen in his hometown.

Modern people naturally think that it is nothing, and even think that he takes advantage of loopholes.

But from the perspective of the ancients, Li Hanzhang betrayed his ancestors, and he is currently in a state of "no ancestor to worship".

He could not worship his ancestors from a distance with regular etiquette, but could only return to his hometown to participate in the ancestor worship activities of the main sect as a son.

Moreover, the descendants he gave birth to after the separation of the family were not qualified to enter the Li clan ancestral hall in Chuzhou, at most, they were appended to the genealogy when continuing.

If such behavior is placed in the Han, Tang and Song dynasties, he can be impeached by the censor and dismissed from office directly and will never be hired!

Do you still expect someone who has no ancestors or fathers to be loyal to the emperor?

No one believed this kind of thing to be said. Li Hanzhang did not deliberately promote it, but reported it to the emperor and informed the Ministry of Personnel. Of course, the Li family in Chuzhou also hid it, and they still had to benefit from the prime minister.

So, what is Li Hanzhang afraid of?

"Greetings to the official family, to the prince!" Li Hanzhang suddenly stood up and bowed.

"Sit down."

Zhu Ming also took the prince down and said casually: "Your nephew committed suicide."

"He blamed him for it." Li Hanzhang said.

He was very disgusted with Li Xiaojian.

Although the two are of different generations, they are not very different in age and often play together when they were young.

At that time, although Li Xiaojian was not good at learning, his character was not bad, and he also had the passion to scold traitorous officials.

It was not until a few years ago that an elder in the clan wrote a letter to Li Hanzhang to complain, denying Li Xiaojian's destruction of the Li family tradition that he realized that his nephew and young friend had changed.

Others didn't know that Li Hanzhang actually sent people back to his hometown many times to secretly warn Li Xiaojian to stop and summon the clan elders to discuss and deal with it.

But Li Xiaojian's lineage is the direct lineage of the Li clan clan of Chuzhou, while Li Hanzhang belongs to the sideline lineage of the Li clan clan clan.

Li Xiaojian always agreed on the surface and swears to be a good person.

This guy kept donating money and land to make family property, and paid for the money to hire famous teachers to teach the descendants of the Li family, and also supported those Li family members who were in a difficult family.

Gradually, most of the Li clans in Chuzhou actually thought that Li Xiaojian was a good person, and even chose him as the head of the Li clan!

But what Li Hanzhang did became to care about himself and his family.

Faced with complaints from many tribesmen, Li Hanzhang finally made up his mind to cut off his family.

Zhu Ming said: "Your nephew is able to do anything. The Huainan Provincial Censorate Office has been rotten from top to bottom. I am afraid that there will be no good people. Even if some officials are not greedy, they will definitely be excluded from doing anything. The Commander and the Commander Office are almost rotten, at least from the Yan Canal to the Cao Canal, the garrisons and the Cao army are smuggling. At least half of the officials at the prefecture and county levels are rotten, and the officials are probably all corrupt and abused. It is difficult to judge how many crimes the officials in the Huainan Three Departments have committed."

Li Hanzhang was dumbfounded when he heard this.

When he asked his brother to go back to separate the family, Li Xiaojian was far less arrogant than he is now. The officialdom in Huainan Province at that time was much more innocent than now, otherwise the crackdown would have been exposed.

How many years have passed?

It actually corrupted the officialdom in Huainan Province!

The corruption rate is not "1+2", but it is developing at a very large rate. Especially in the past two or three years, as Shahe will continue to grow, many clerks have joined the gang, and even Li Xiaojian can't stop the "black and white fusion".

According to Li Xiaojian's original intention, clerks are clerks, gangs are gangs, and black and white cooperate with each other.

What's the result?

Gang members are constantly being hired as soap officials, and officials are constantly being hired as gang members.

There is no distinction between black and white, and the newly appointed officials are easily dragged into the water in a confused manner.

The hometown is so big that even if Li Hanzhang splits his family, he can't help but blame him. He stood up and bowed: "I'm going to retire and recuperate."

Zhu Ming said: "Prime Minister, please continue to do it first, deprive all the officials of the government, and remove the official title from the third level."

This punishment made Li Hanzhang happy and disappointed.

In addition to the position of prime minister, his various honorary titles were directly beaten, and his official titles became the bottom of the cabinet.

The layman may think that this is three cups of self-punishment.

But those who truly enter the officialdom know that every position, whether virtual or real, represents glory and power.

For Li Hanzhang himself, this is also a red flag.

If you make another mistake next time, you may have to stop looking for it!

Fortunately, he cut off his family early, otherwise the punishment result would have been like Zhai Ruwen.

After accompanying the emperor, the prince traveled to Dongxi Garden for a while, Li Hanzhang bowed and left.

Looking at the prince who was a little confused, Zhu Ming asked, "Don't you understand?"

Zhu Yang bowed: "Please make clear instructions from my father."

Zhu Ming explained in detail:

"Li Hanzhang used to control the Ministry of Personnel, and entered the cabinet at a young age. He served as prime minister for many years. His disciples and former officials were everywhere, but I have changed several ministers from the Ministry of Personnel. In addition, those several times of strict investigation of corruption, officials changed greatly. The newly emerging officials had serious conflicts with Li Hanzhang's disciples and former officials."

"The leaders of several major civil servant factions actually don't want to cause trouble again, at least they don't want to provoke trouble. But the officials of their respective factions will push them away in order to get promoted. They have to fight if they don't fight, otherwise how can they be faction leaders? This incident is nothing more than turning the secret battle into an open fight on the table."

"The person who planned it is Zhang Su, the right governor of Huainan. He is your grandfather's person..."

"Grandfather?" Zhu Yang was shocked.

Zhu Ming nodded: "Your grandfather abdicated as the Supreme Emperor, and many people cried and persuaded him, some of them sincerely. Zhang Su was the nephew of former prime minister Zhang Shangying. He had been the chief clerk of Xixiang County before. He first discovered that there was a problem in Daming Township. However, because he was constrained everywhere, he did not cause any losses to Daming Township. Instead, he had a friendship with your grandfather."

"If your grandfather was still in power, Zhang Su would have been promoted to the center, at least he was a Left Minister, only one step away from the Minister of the Secretariat. But your grandfather abdicated, and he was promoted slowly in circles. He planned to reveal the Huainan case, one was to drive the Zuo Gongshu away, and he took the opportunity to take up his post and take charge of Huainan immigration and gain political achievements; the other was to help Liang Yi attack Li Hanzhang."

Zhu Yang nodded and said, "Old Liang Ge is the eldest disciple of his grandfather. I heard that he almost became his adopted son of his grandfather. He is indeed the head of this faction. But even if Prime Minister Li was removed from his post, there were two people in the cabinet ahead of him. How could he not be his turn?"

Zhu Ming smiled and said, "One of the cabinet ministers in front of Liang Yi is Zhang Tong and the other is Chen Dong. Although Zhang Tong is a literati, he was from the army and has led troops to fight wars. Now the Ministry of War and the Privy Council are both controlled by military generals, so Zhang Tong cannot be the prime minister. Similarly, Chen Dong was from the Inspectorate, and another cabinet minister, Wei Liangchen, also from the Inspectorate. The Inspectorate has too much power, and even the Left Censor has been replaced by me. If the two Censors enter the cabinet, can one of them be the prime minister?"

"If my father personally appoints and removes the prime minister, anyone can do this position." Zhu Yang said.

Zhu Ming shook his head slightly: "Of course it is possible to force the appointment of the prime minister. This is the emperor's power. But the military power must not be too heavy, otherwise it will be difficult for those military generals to suppress it. Chen Dong and Wei Liangchen, who were born in the censor, offended too many people. Once they become prime ministers, it will intensify the conflicts among the civil servant faction."

Zhu Yang said: "Then they will never be prime ministers in their lives?"

"Of course not," Zhu Ming said, "If one of the Minister of War or Privy Councilors has a position of civil servants, it is OK for Zhang Tong to be the prime minister. If one of Chen Dong and Wei Liangchen die of illness or retire, the other one can be the prime minister."

Zhu Yang thought carefully and bowed, "Thank you for your teachings."
To be continued...